Britton v. Killian

The trustees under a trust created by the seventeenth clause of the mil of George P. McLean have instituted this action, naming the attorney general as defendant as representative of the public interest in the protection of trusts for charitable uses and purposes pursuant to § 3-125 of the General Statutes. They seek an adjudication that the dominant intent of the testator as expressed in clause seventeenth of his will can be carried out under the doctrine of approximation or, in the alternative, an adjudication that the fulfilment of that dominant intent will be prevented by strict adherence…